The
Banger
Sisters
Character Name:
Suzette
Appears in:
The Banger Sisters
Director:
Bob Dolman
Writer:
Bob Dolman
Dates:
2002
Awards:
Golden Globe
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated
| Character back story:
Back in the day Suzette was a "groupie" along with her friend Lavinia "Vinnie" Kingsley (Susan Sarandon) who have parted ways and now lead very different life styles. Suzette and Vinnie haven't seen each other in over twenty years. After being fired from her bartending job, Suzette decides on the spur of the moment to go travel to Phoenix, Arizona to see her old friend. Along the way, after running out of gas, without any money she meets stressed out writer Harry Plummer, (Geoffrey Rush), who is on his way to Phoenix to once and for all come to grips with the influence his (dead) father has had over his life.
After arriving in Phoenix, Suzette meets Vinnie's eighteen year old daughter Hannah who, after some drug use, passes out in Harry's hotel room. Suzette drives Hannah back to her parents' elegant suburban home and can't believe what she sees. Vinnie, who now calls herself Lavinia Kingsley, seems to lead the life of the perfect wife and mother. Vinnie's family has no idea about her past. After going through memorabilia, a collection of photos of their previous life as groupies, Vinnie cuts her hair and ditches her suits, the two ladies goes out for a night on the town, dancing, drinking, and reliving and remembering the old times. In the end, everyone sees and understands that we are all just human. | Age/Occupation:
50's
Former Bartender at Whisky A Go-Go | Personality type:
Laid back and easy going
| Signature look:
Tattoos, Large Breast & Lips
| Resides:
Los Angeles, California | Fun facts/trivia:
The Banger Sisters [SOUNDTRACK]
Track Listings
1. THE RED ROAD - Chris Robinson
2. FAME 02 - Tommy Lee
3. HOME - Dishwalla
4. BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE - Talking Heads
5. ONE LAST GOODBYE - Richie Sambora
6. DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD - Trevor Rabin
7. DOCTOR MY EYES - Ben Folds
8. HOUR OF NEED - Peter Framton
9. TRIPPIN - JP
10. CHILD OF MINE - Roger Daltrey
11. CRUSHED - Buckcherry
12. BURN OUT - Slack
13. ROCK ME - Steppenwolf
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| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | [on seeing Hannah at prom looking sick]
Suzette: Oh god, whats she on?
Jules: Nothing, we just had champagne.
Suzette: Don't bullshit me.
Prom Girl: Shes on acid.
Suzette: How long ago did she drop it?
Prom Girl: Two hours maybe?
Suzette: Two hours she's gonna be really messed up, you guys should go.
Jules: Leave her here with you? We don't even know you.
Suzette: I'm a friend of her mother's.
Jules: Yeah, right Hannah's mother.
Suzette: Lavinia Kingsley, Handsome. Now go. Go on, get out here!
Harry: Her mother is Vinny?
Suzette: Yeah. Just breathe honey
[Hannah starts throwing up]
Suzette: Ooo wow... Just let it go. Let it go. Ooo there's another one, Harry you may never shit again!
Harry: If everything isn't in order... I get... constipated
Suzette: Like I needed to know that.
Suzette: You're spoiled brats. Okay, what's this?
Ginger: A banana hammock.
Suzette: A banana hammock. Not everybody has one of those.
Suzette: Do the dishes you wash you dry!
Ginger: Rosa does them.
Suzette: Rosa who?
Ginger: I dunno...
Suzette: You have people wiping your ass and you don't even know their name!
Lavinia: You don't think they were maybe just skinny dipping?
Suzette: No they were going at it.
Lavinia: You don't think maybe they were just rubbing up against each other?
Suzette: No they were f*cking.
Jake: Ah don't let him see you drinking!
Suzette: I've been drinking rum and coke since before he was born, he can go f*ck himself.
Suzette: I saw this guy, he was on a stretcher. His face was all purple and I thought he was dead. Even he looked at my tits.
Lavinia: Maybe you revived him.
Suzette: Ever heard of Frank Zappa?
Harry: Sure. The Mothers of Invention.
Suzette: Wow. Very good Harry. Well, he named us. The Banger Sisters.
Harry: But you weren't really sisters.
Suzette: No
Harry: Good 'cause I wouldn't have been comfortable if you were sisters.
Suzette: You're not comfortable now, Harry.
Lavinia: Suzette, is that you?
Suzette: Yep! Well, the nose, the lips and the tits aren't but I'm in here somewhere!
Suzette: Vinnie, stop it. Okay? 'Cause you're going right up your own asshole, and i don't feel like following! |
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| Death Becomes Her
Character Name:
Helen Sharp
Appears in:
Death Becomes Her
Director & Producer:
Robert Zemeckis
Writers:
Martin Donovan
&
David Koepp
Dates:
1992
Award(s):
Goldie did not recieve and was not nominated for any awards for Death Becomes Her.
Although, there was an Oscar win and another 3 wins & 8 nominations for the film.
| Character back story:
Helen Sharp, a writer, and Madeline Ashton, an actress, are longtime bitter rivals. Helen's life falls apart when Madeline steals Helen's fiance, Ernest, a plastic surgeon, from her and marries him. Several years goes by and Helen gets obese and depressed. She is eventually placed in a mental institution after a mental breakdown. Helen is hell bent on getting revenge against Madelnie, she focuses all her time and attention on getting well. Years go by and Helen is now well, slim, beautiful, and has become an established author of "Forever Young". Helen vows revenge by stealing back Ernest and plotting to kill Madeline. Both Helen and Madeline have secretly drunk a miracle cure for aging, they accidentally discover, when each tries to kill the other, that they have become immortal and they are now forced to take care of each other forever.
| Age/Occupation:
Immortal/Writer | Personality type:
Obsessed | Signature look:
Beauty | Fun facts/trivia:
Special effects
Like most of director Robert Zemeckis' films, Death Becomes Her was a technically complex movie to make, and the production had its fair share of mishaps. For example, in a scene where Helen and Madeline are battling with shovels, Meryl Streep accidentally hits Goldie in the face leaveing a scar.. |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | Helen: Oh ok! Well if she's not dead, you tell her to come down here, come right up to me and kiss me on the...
Madeline: Kiss you on the what?
Helen: Mad?
Madeline: Hel...
[after being shot into a pond, by Madeline]
Helen: That was totally uncalled for.
[Helen has a gaping hole in her abdomen after being shot into a pool]
Helen: Look at me, Ernest! Just look at me! I'm soaking wet!
[after seeing Mad]
Helen Sharp: It's alive!
Helen Sharp: And it's beautiful...
Helen Sharp: You're a powerful sexual being, Ernest.
Ernest Menville: I am?
Helen Sharp: Yes, you are. If I never told you before, it was because I wasn't the sort of girl who could say the word "sexual" without blushing. Well I can now. Sexual... sensual... sexy... sex... sex... sex...
Helen: She married a brilliant surgeon, and turned him into an undertaker.
Helen: I will not speak to you 'til you put your head on straight.
Helen: Madeleine! I need to speak to Madeleine!
Ernest: She's not here.
Helen: Oh, thank god.
Helen: Ernest, ask me to go. Ask me to leave this house immediately!
Ernest: You just got here!
Helen: She was a homebreaker. She was a man-eater. And she was a bad actress.
Helen: You can't raise an eyebrow without major surgery!
Madeleine: You should learn not to compete with me. I always win!
Helen: You may have always won, but you never played fair!
Madeleine: Who cares how I played? I won!
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| Cactus Flower
Character Name:
Toni Simmons
Appears in:
Cactus Flower
Date(s):
1969
Director:
Gene Saks
Writers:
Pierre Barillet
and
Jean-Pierre Grédy
Award(s):
Academy Award ~ Oscar 1970
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Won
BAFTA Award ~ 1971
Best Actress
Nominated
David di Donatello Award ~ 1970
Special David
Won
Golden Globe ~ 1970
Best Supporting Actress
Won
Golden Globe ~ 1970
Most Promising Newcomer - Female
Nominated
| Character back story:
Toni Simmons is a 21 year old, free spirited woman in love with Julian Winston, a dentist, and wants to marry him. Julian tells Toni that he's married with children and that his wife will never divorce him, although he is a bachelor who doesn't want to wed. This leads Toni to attempt suicide by gas by using her stove. Fortunately for her, Igor, her neighbor, rescues her. After finding out Toni has attempted suicide Julian realizes her depth of love for him, he asks his assistant Miss Stephanie Dickinson to step in and pose as
his wife. Toni finally sees through Julian's lies and eventually falls in love with her neighbor, Igor.
| Age/Occupation:
21
| Personality type:
Free Spirited
| Signature look:
Short Blonde Hair
| Resides:
New York
| Fun facts/trivia:
Cactus Flower was the seventh highest grossing film of 1970.
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| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | Toni Simmons: [after Julian bursts into the apartment]
I didn't know dentists made house calls.
Dr. Julian Winston: What did she say?
Toni Simmons: It's not what she said, it's what she didn't say
Dr. Julian Winston: Tell me what she didn't say, word for word
Dr. Julian Winston: Hey, did you see that? He just kissed her on the neck!
Toni Simmons: Hmph! She sure likes a lot of action.
Dr. Julian Winston: Yes, she does, doesn't she!
Toni Simmons: Right now, she's surrounded by her husband, her ex-boyfriend, her current boyfriend and maybe her future boyfriend.
Dr. Julian Winston: If somebody doesn't stop that guy, he's gonna make love to her right in the middle of the floor.
Toni Simmons: And did you get a load of that girl?
Dr. Julian Winston: Well, I wasn't paying much attention...
Toni Simmons: When she bent over, it looked like she had her knees up inside her dress.
Dr. Julian Winston: Toni, I'm going to marry you.
Toni Simmons: How do you mean, Marry?
Dr. Julian Winston: You know, marry, with the judge, the blood test, the license, that kind of marry, right away.
Toni Simmons: But what about your wife?
Dr. Julian Winston: My wife? I'll divorce her.
Toni Simmons: What about the children?
Dr. Julian Winston: I'll divorce them, too.
Dr. Julian Winston: You really tried to kill yourself over me?
Toni Simmons: Stupid, wasn't it?
Dr. Julian Winston: I'm a bastard, the biggest bastard in the whole world.
Toni Simmons: Julian, please, you're starting to make it sound like bragging.
Toni Simmons: Who are you? What are you doing?
Igor Sullivan: Mouth to Mouth resuscitation.
Toni Simmons: You were kissing me!
Igor Sullivan: I lost my head!
Toni Simmons: A man who lies cannot love.
Stephanie: That sounds like something out of a fortune cookie.
Toni Simmons: [after Stephanie leaves] Dirty married bachelor!
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| Private Benjamin
Character Name:
Pvt. Judy Benjamin
Appears in:
Private Benjamin
Date(s):
1980
Director:
Howard Zieff
Writers:
Nancy Meyers
&
Charles Shyer
Executive Producer:
Goldie Hawn
Award(s):
Academy Award
Oscar
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated
Golden Globe
Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy
Nominated
| Character back story:
Judy Benjamin is a spoiled young Jewish woman. She has done nothing of importance in her life. Her father is only interested in her finding the right guy so he doesn't have to support her anymore. She finally finds a successful husband, a man named Yale. He has a good job as a divorce attorney, and Judy will be able to live off him for the rest of her life. Those plans are shattered when he drops dead on their wedding night. After a bought of self-pity, Judy lets a charming army recruiter talk her into enlisting into the army and things are never the same for Judy Benjamin ever again. The army teaches her self esteem and new found independence.
| Age/Occupation:
Late 20's
Military
| Personality type:
Sheltered and seeking her identity and independence
| Signature look:
Military Wear
| Resides:
In the Army
| Fun facts/trivia:
Private Benjamin was made into a television series in 1981. It starred Lorna Patterson, Eileen Brennan,
Hal Williams, Wendie Jo Sperber and Joel Brooks.
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| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | Judy Benjamin: I think they sent me to the wrong place.
Capt. Lewis: Uh-huh.
Judy Benjamin: See, I did join the army, but I joined a different army. I joined the one with the condos and the private rooms.
Judy Benjamin: To be truthful with you, I can't sleep in a room with 20 strangers.
Capt. Lewis: Oh dear.
Judy Benjamin: And I mean look at this place. The army couldn't afford drapes? I'll be up at the crack of dawn here!
Judy Benjamin: Have you seen the bathroom?
Capt. Lewis: Do you think that the latrine. Do you think that it's unsanitary?
Judy Benjamin: It's disgusting! There are urinals in there!
Sgt. Ross: Everybody up! Everybody, Benjamin!
Judy Benjamin: Oh god, you can't mean me. I worked the night shift! Go check out the bathroom, it's FABULOUS.
Capt. Lewis: Benjamin, you are not FIT to wear that uniform.
Judy Benjamin: No shit!
[after sex]
Judy Benjamin: Now I know what I've been faking all these years.
Henri Tremont: That was your first?
Judy Benjamin: And second.
[At Yale's funeral, he died of heart attack after sex]
Mrs. Goodman:Please dear, I need to know. What were his last words?
Judy Benjamin: I'm coming.
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